Unite for better future

Women worldwide have an inherent sense of responsibility and willingness to make sacrifices for the wellbeing of others. These qualities in women across all spectra of society are what give us hope for the future.

Last year, South Africa celebrated the 60th Anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. On August 9 that year, one of the most historic events in the struggle for freedom and women’s rights in South Africa took place in the country’s administrative capital Pretoria, when more than 20,000 women of different races marched to the Union Buildings to protest against legislation aimed at tightening the apartheid government’s control over the movement of black women in urban areas. They also challenged the idea that “a woman’s place is in the kitchen,” declaring it instead to be “everywhere.”

This disciplined and dignified crowd demonstrated the strength and determination of women united, striving for equal rights, democracy and